Re: trying to delete most of the table by range of date col

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Mariel Cherkassky <mariel(dot)cherkassky(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>, pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: trying to delete most of the table by range of date col
Date: 2018-09-03 09:23:01
Message-ID: 20180903092300.GC11702@telsasoft.com
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 11:17:58AM +0300, Mariel Cherkassky wrote:
> Hi,
> I already checked and on all the tables that uses the id col of the main
> table as a foreign key have index on that column.
>
> So, it seems that the second solution is the fastest one. It there a reason
> why the delete chunks (solution 4) wasnt faster?

I suggest running:

SET track_io_timing=on; -- requires superuser
explain(ANALYZE,BUFFERS) DELETE [...]

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions

Maybe you just need larger shared_buffers ?

Justin

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